Author: jedreynolds
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Ikea Stonehenge « How to be a Retronaut
So much like Lego instructions, too! http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtobearetronaut.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fikea-stonehenge%2F
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Inverviews on Peak Oil
Below is a 20 minute video featuring interviews with Noam Champsky and Bill Mckibben and others on why the US seems legally bound and why CEOs may be too frightened to honestly confront peak oil and climate change.
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Sara Salo and her School Food Bicycle Tour
Let’s not take for granted what our kids eat in school. If you’ve actually looked at a school menu, I think you’d be distinctly disappointed. It’s filled with white flour and sugar: juice, cookies, and some combination of pizza, hamburger, grilled cheese or the like. By some standards that’s a nutritional nightmare. I am fascinated by…
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Is gluten sensitivity the root of many diseases?
This seems to be the hypothesis of doctors James Braly and Ron Hoggan, in “Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous to Your Health”. The authors also indicate that gluten sensitivity is congenital which could explain why asthma, polymyagia, celiac disease and diabetes might also run in families. I probably wont get time…
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Print Google Maps Across Multiple Pages
Tonight I’m trying to print out my bike route for tomorrow’s picnic and I wanted to print out a really large Google Map. I think what I’m going to try is printing to a 16×24 sized PDF file and then use PosterRazor (http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/) to print it out across multiple pages. I’ll see how it works.
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Anticipating Seattle to Portland 2011
I’m looking forward to riding my recumbent in the STP this summer. I have never ridden a century, so not even a double century. I’m not concerned about the amount of saddle time since I am not riding a diamond frame. I have met three people so far that have, but I haven’t had much…
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Actuary Report: Obesity costs $300BN
Actuary Report, quote from the summary: …the total economic cost of overweightand obesity in the United States and Canada caused by medical costs, excess mortalityand disability is approximately $300 billion per year. The portion of this total due to overweight is approximately $80 billion, and approximately $220 billion is due to obesity. The portion of the…
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Maybe time to convert to a standing workstation? (NYTimes)
IT workers beware: sitting! Inactivity Is Harmful, Even With Trips to the Gym – NYTimes.com.
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IKEA Transportfiets (The Recumbent Blog)
http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/01/15/ikea-transportfiets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ikea-transportfiets Seriously I think this is poldly positive! This is what grocery stores and mini-malls should be doing!
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Statistics
I quote a comment wrt to the proposed Oregon child bicycle law: According the CDC ( http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/childpas.htm ) : “In the United States during 2005, 1,335 children ages 14 years and younger died as occupants in motor vehicle crashes, and approximately 184,000 were injured.” Accordining to http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm , which sourced it’s data from http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/811156.pdf : 2008 data shows:…
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